Just what made Channel 4 comedy Nightingales, about a trio of security guards working an office block's graveyard shift, a fondly-remembered cult hit? Dark surrealism by the bucket-load, more than twenty years before many other comedies followed suit.
Long before Gordon Ramsay was insulting cooks from across the globe for the purposes of televisual entertainment, Lenny Henry played the role of the acerbic but brilliant French cuisine maestro Gareth Blackstock in this early 90s BBC sitcom.
1987. Margaret Thatcher had just won her third General Election and two writers by the names of Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran were about to team up with the pan-global phenomenon that was Rik Mayall, in order to create one of the most outrageous satires Britain had ever seen...
